Turman Hardwood Pellets are a premium wood pellet. Turman Hardwood Pellets, are located in Galax, Virginia is a 100% hardwood pellet. Turman pellets are made from solid oak residual from their flooring mill, as well as other sawmill facilities owned by the parent company, The Turman Group.
Turman Hardwood Pellets Review
2018- One of my favorite. Kiln dried hardwood flooring waste. Nice and hot and low ash
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I bought 3 tons, my usual for my 1440 sq ft. condo. Yes it was a cold winter but I’m down to my last 5 bags on 2/27. They burn well & not much ash but they burn faster than other brands I’ve tried. Most winters, 3 tons carry me thru until June but not this winter with Turman. I’m going to a different brand next winter.
I have tried many brands and types of wood pellets, but ever since I tried the Turmans a few years ago I exclusively use these. The stove stays very clean, the pellets burn nice and hot, very little ash buildup, and I have to empty the burning tray only every few days whereas I had to do that pretty much every day with many other brands.
BTW my stove is an Amaizablaze insert.
Stove is a Quadra-Fire Castile Pellet Insert. I don’t have my data from last year but so far this winter I can confirm that Hammer’s Hot Ones is the worst I have used. My stove will refuse to light without a complete cleaning every other bag. No kidding! Lignetics / Presto are only slight better, averaging a mandatory cleaning every 3 bags. To date I have found no pellets that burn cleaner than Turman Pellets. Ive gone near 20 bags and cleaned out of guilt more than necessity. They are hard to find in my area – last year it was impossible to find them. Even the manufacturer could not help me… I really am glad I found them this season… I have read (yes, even in the owners manual) that softwood pellets are better (more btu/heat and less ash,etc) but at the most I have seen only one pellet manufacturer that says they use softwood – and they actually say its a mixture of soft and hardwoods… Does anyone know of a 100% softwood pellet I can try? I travel about an hour one-way for my Turman pellets so I have no problem with doing that for a softwood pellet. Thanks in advance, [email protected]
By far the lowest ash of any pellets I’ve tried! I could probably burn an entire ton before needing to empty the ash on my P68. burning a ton of AWF Ultra Premium White Pine pellets now and these are leaving at least twice the ash of Turmans.
The do leave a nice deposit of carbon on the bottom of the burn pot on my P68 but that comes off easily when I do my cleaning, none of the other pellets I’ve burned do that however.
I can get them for cheaper than big box store pellets too!
we used Turman, and Barefoot last year. Turman was the best as far as ash goes. This year, we decided on just Turman. We get clinkers ALL time now. Never had a issue last year…In fact, we only needed to clean the stove every 2 weeks! This year, I am cleaning every few days.
These are by far the best pellets. I’ve been using for 3 years. I’ve tried others and keep coming back to turman
Can’t trust a pellet brand that doesn’t list the ash percentage. How much is “low ash content?” 1%? 2%? -1%?
Turman Pellets are probabily the best pellets on the Planet , Notably the people that complain i find are the ones that do little or no maintaince on there stoves , this is one big factor in pellet burning a clean stove is a happy stove 🙂
I agree with the last poster. These pellets burn hot initially in a clean stove, but then over time the pellets clump up, go down to a low flame, and don’t seem to want to move off the burn plate. When enough pellets get pushed onto the burn plate — burning pellets break off and drop into the ash pan (a waste). It seems there may be a resin that makes the burning pellets congeal. I’m going back to AWF Pine pellets — no ash, no clumping –but not quite as hot.
I am not happy with these. They do not burn down to ash and clump up in the burn tray. I still have a pallet left unfortunately. I will not buy them again.